I thought the only countries that imprisoned children, were the kind of ones that forbid women's ankles in public - guess I was wrong.
You've probably heard this before, but:
The USA is not a singular nation from the inside. There's a single foreign policy and a single military system and a single treaty negotiator, but on the inside it's 51+ jurisdictions, one of which isn't even based on the same underlying jurisprudence as the others ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana ).